AUGUST FIRST

AUGUST FIRST

 

August’s warm humidity

And cicadas’ chirping from a tree…

      Dusk’s coolness

      Our bodies bless

While a flag flutters softly in the breeze.

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A small  bunny scampers along,

List’ning to cicada song…

      Finding succulant things to munch,

      Loving life (just a hunch)

‘Til carefree summer days are gone.

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Geese fly overhead in flocks,

“V”-shaped animal voting blocks…

      Heading for a quiet pond

      With their kin to rest upon,

Wings are down with applied wheel chocks.

 

—Jonathan Caswell